I normally start off Black History month with facts. Last year I started off with questions. This year I am gonna start off with someone else’s questions. I got this off of another one of my internet listservs. It was done by a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority by the name of Cecilia West. So she get the credit for this one. She said that this was probably a sign that maybe she needs to QUIT her corporate america job and become a teacher. I agreed with her immediately. Not only did she teach ME a few things, but her delivery was with such pride and joy. Like she ENJOYED doing this. Hell, I told her TWICE that she needs to be a professor of Black Studies. In any event, here goes and have a PROGRESSIVE Black History month…
WALK WITH PRIDE!
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1. Which of the following was NOT a Black Nationalist movement?
a. A. Philip Randolph’s Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
b. Malcolm X’s Nation of Islam
c. Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association
2. Which of the following civil rights murder trials ended with the all-white jury reaching their verdict to acquit to the two white suspects in just over an hour? With double-jeopardy protecting them from being retried, the two later boasted about the murders in a Look magazine interview, for which they were paid $4,000.
a. The 1955 murder of Emmett Till
b. The 1964 murders of civil right workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, & Michael Schwerner
c. The murder of Medgar Evers
3. In January 1849, this slave couple escaped from Georgia, the wife dressed in man’s clothing and passing as the master while her husband passed as the servant. What was this couple’s name?
a. Peter & Vina Still
b. Solomon & Anne Northup
c. Frederick & Jane Bailey
d. Ellen & William Craft
4. What leader often referred to as the “Black Moses” suffered from two stroke and then died after reading his obituary by a reporter?
a. Alan Locke
b. Crispus Attucks
c. Marcus Garvey
d. Frederick Douglas
5. Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed all the slaves in the United States. True or False.
6. What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
a. The Black Star Line
b. BET Holdings
c. Johnson Publishing
d. Ariel Capital
7. The hymn, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” by James Weldon Johnson, was meant to celebrate whose birthday?
a. Booker T. Washington
b. Abraham Lincoln
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. W.E.B. Dubois
8. Who holds the record of 100 points scored in a single NBA game?
a. Earl Manigault
b. Julius Erving
c. Oscar Robertson
d. Wilt Chamberlain
9. Who founded the National Negro Business League?
a. Chris Gardner
b. Malcolm X
c. Booker T. Washington
d. Huey Newton
10. Who was a cofounder of the Niagara Movement along with DuBois and William Moore Trotter and later became the first black president of an Atlanta HBCU?
a. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
b. John Hope
c. Walter Francis White
d. James Farmer Jr.
Bonus Questions:
~ List the Civil Right’s BIG 6.